Japan’s History of Education

 

Japan followed the Chinese teachings and ideas from sixth to ninth century’s. Japan students learned Buddhism writing and its literacy tradition & Confucianism. In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Japan experienced intense contact with the major European powers. Portuguese traders and Jesuit missionary’s teaches Christianity. They opened a various number of religious schools. This leads Japanese students begins to learn Latin and western classical music as well as their own language.

 

During edo period, Japan was very specified by the Tokugawa regime (1600-1867). In this era Neo-Confusion academy and the Yushima Seido was the chief educational institution of the state. The head of the administration was called as Daigaku-no-kani.

 

People in Japan learn to read or write only because of Tokugawa period. During the Tokugawa period, the role of many of the bushi or samurai changed from warrier to government bureaucrat. During the Tokugawa period, they provided the basic training in reading, writing and arithmetic, emphasizing calligraphy and use of the abacus. There were more than 11,000 schools and created more than 7,50,000 students. The students were taught by teachers in the form of various textbooks, memorizing, abacus, Chinese characters and Japanese script.

 

During the Meiji period, the Meiji leaders started public education system. It enhance the Japan students to learn modern education. A modern concept of childhood emerged in Japan after 1850 as part of its engagement with the west.

 

During the occupation period, they made a number of changes aimed at democratizing Japanese education. They eliminated the higher education system and improved the number of higher education institutes. They established junior college. They changed moral course into social studies.

 

During the post-occupation period, Japan begins to impose Japanese ideas about education and educational administration. In 1980’s National council on educational reforms was set up by Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. They formed new way of higher education. It introduced lifelong learning and adjustment to social change. These subjects reflected both educational and social aspects of reforms in keeping with the Japanese view about the relationship of education to society

 

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